Summerplace Farm

2007 Record: (18-6-2-2)

2007 Earnings: $1,416,489

2007 Win %: 33% In-The-Money %: 55%

Owner(s): Jack and Louise Lally
Born: Jack, June 13, 1936, Chicago; Louise, Aug. 6, 1937, Chicago
Residence: Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., Lexington, Ky., and Chicago
Family: children Brendan, Timothy and Dana Haugli; six grandchildren
Professional Background: Semi-retired from family-owned L B Industries, a holding company for the steel business based in Covington, Ky.
Racing Background: Jack rode horses while growing up in the western suburbs of Chicago … Claimed first horse in the mid 1970s and then started going to Thoroughbred sales at Keeneland
Breeding/Racing Operation: In 1978 purchased 85-acre Summerplace Farm on northeast side of Lexington and relocated to the farm after remodeling the house … Also has residences in Ft. Lauderdale, near Palm Meadows training center and Gulfstream Park where his runners spend the winter and Chicago where his stable races at Arlington Park … Summerplace is currently home to four yearlings purchased at the 2007 Keeneland September yearling sale and one 2-year-old ... The couple disbanded its breeding operation to concentrate on purchasing racing prospects at public auctions … Among the mares they sold was Best Game, the stakes-winning dam of Kelly’s Landing … Bred her to Patton primarily because Jack liked his sire, Lord At War … Kelly’s Landing is Best Game’s 13th foal and first stakes winner … All but one of her 13 foals of racing age are winners … Summerplace's policy is to castrate colts because they believe their pedigrees are not fashionable enough to become stallions, and because, as geldings, they are more suited to second careers when their racing days are over … Credits Lexington-based trainer Tom Bergin with giving Kelly’s Landing a solid early foundation, but sent the gelding to Eddie Kenneally because they wanted to race in Florida after he won his first two starts for Bergin ... Following a 10th place finish in the 2006 Breeders' Cup Sprint, Kelly's Landing returned to win the G3 Mr. Prospector Handicap at Gulfstream Park in January, then provided the Lallys with their biggest victory in the $2 million Dubai Golden Shaheen in March under jockey Frankie Dettori ... His return appearance to the 2007 Sprint would mark first start since that March triumph … Also raced stakes winners Chez Chez Chez, winner of the 1998 Locust Grove Stakes at Churchill Downs, and Sweet Nostalgia, who finished third in the Churchill Downs Budweiser Breeders’ Cup Handicap in 1990 … Kelly’s Landing is named for a restaurant in Ft. Lauderdale which displays the horse’s win pictures on what Lally dubs the “wall of fame” ... Their only Breeders' Cup starter to date, Kelly's Landing ran fifth in the '07 edition of the Sprint.